2008 September 01 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL Bingo. For weeks, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been the Republican whom conservatives barely dared to hope could become John McCain’s pick as his running mate.

The latest (and last) wave in the flood of Kansas casino consultants’ reports issued during the past year are in.

A standoff between a county sheriff?s deputies and leaders of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians has led to an unusual effort to close a casino in Riverside County, Calif.

At a youth sports convention I attended, I recall the keynote speaker mentioning that if you thought a particular sport was boring or you didn’t like it, chances were highly likely that you couldn’t play that sport, had a bad experience with that sport or just didn’t give it a chance to prove itself.

Police describe 14 armed robberies in the Strathclyde area in two months as “completely unacceptable to us as a force”.

James A. Jay Gede Jr. is betting that Abu Dhabi is the next Dubai. The Baltimore-based partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP is moving Wednesday to his firms new office in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

A children’s show that premiered in 1968 is being resurrected via a multi-platform assault that includes Cartoon Network shorts, a CD, a DVD and more. The Banana Splits are back, in a small way. Fleegle the beagle, Bingo the orangutan/ape, Drooper the lion and Snorky the elephant have been revived to appear in “as many as 130″ interstitial comedy shorts and music videos on Cartoon Network and …

GRANJENO, Texas — Fresh off his electoral victory in May, Mayor Vicente Garza Jr. has embarked on a quixotic project, betting against long odds that a casino could secure the future of…

As APAs and their families struggle with the effects of gambling addiction, different organizations seek to educate and provide treatment.